Patents by Inventor Yasushi Nakano

Yasushi Nakano has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130229601
    Abstract: A display device includes a plastic substrate and a thin film transistor layer including at least one thin film transistor. The thin film transistor layer is disposed on the plastic substrate via a resin film having no viscosity or adhesion and an adhesive film. The resin film has a first surface formed on a first surface of the thin film transistor layer, the first surface of the thin film transistor layer being at one side of the plastic substrate, and the adhesive film is formed on a second surface of the resin film, the second surface of the resin film being at the one side of the plastic substrate, and the resin film is attached to the plastic substrate by the adhesive film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicants: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., Japan Display East, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakano, Hitoshi Azuma, Tomio Yaguchi
  • Publication number: 20130213577
    Abstract: A labeling device comprising a guide frame, rotatably supporting a label roll formed by winding around a core a label holding band, which releasably holds a plurality of labels in series, and a peeling member which peels the printed label from the band by bending the band at an acute angle towards a slanting lower part in relation to the direction of movement of the band. The labeling device comprises a guide unit that is pivotally provided for nipping and holding a leading edge of the label holding band in front of the peeling member and is rotatable around the peeling member with the leading edge of the band so that the leading edge of the band is automatically brought to a feeding roller arranged on the slanting lower part of the peeling member in relation to the direction of the movement of the label holding band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicants: AUTONICS CO., LTD., TECHNO MEDICA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Matsumoto, Yoshimi Hirasawa, Yasushi Nakano, Mitsuyuki Suzuki, Kazuo Kuwahara, Masashi Hamano, Takeshi Yokochi
  • Publication number: 20130200831
    Abstract: A power supply device includes: an inverter that converts a DC power supplied from a battery pack into an AC power and outputs the AC power; and an adapter shapes a waveform of the AC power outputted from the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakano, Yoshikazu Kawano, Nobuhiro Takano, Kazuhiko Funabashi
  • Publication number: 20130157895
    Abstract: A tissue staining method which comprises: staining a tissue with a staining reagent wherein a biosubstance recognition site is bonded to particles carrying multiple fluorescent substances accumulated therein; in the stained tissue, counting fluorescent points or measuring fluorescent brightness; and evaluating the expression level of a biosubstance, which matches the biosubstance recognition site, in the aforesaid tissue on the basis of the number of the fluorescent points or fluorescent brightness that was measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL AND GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Takuji Aimiya, Hideki Gouda, Hisatake Okada, Yasushi Nakano, Kohsuke Gonda, Motohiro Takeda, Noriaki Ohuchi
  • Publication number: 20130157287
    Abstract: A biological substance detection method for detecting a biological substance specifically in a pathological specimen, comprising a step of immunologically staining the pathological specimen using a fluorescent label, a step of staining the pathological specimen with a staining reagent for morphology observation purposes (eosin) to observe the morphology of the pathological specimen, a step of irradiating the stained pathological specimen, with excited light to cause the emission of a fluorescent and detecting the biological substance in the pathological specimen. In the step of immunologically staining the pathological specimen, a special fluorescent particle for which the excitation wavelength appears in a region that is different from the excitation wavelength region of eosin is used as the fluorescent label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Kensaku Takanashi, Hideki Gouda, Hisatake Okada, Yasushi Nakano, Kohsuke Gonda, Motohiro Takeda, Noriaki Ohuchi
  • Patent number: 8454857
    Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound shown by the following formula, a polymerizable liquid crystal composition that includes the polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a chiral compound polymerizable with the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystalline polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable liquid crystal compound or the polymerizable liquid crystal composition, and an optically anisotropic article that includes the liquid crystalline polymer, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Zeon Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Yasushi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20130051104
    Abstract: A battery adapter includes an inverter device capable of converting voltage waveform from DC to AC. A first reachable battery and a second rechargeable battery different in shape can be selectively connected to the inverter device. The first rechargeable battery may, for example, a battery pack for use in an electric power tool, and the second rechargeable battery may, for example, a high-capacity lead-acid battery. With the battery adapter, two types of rechargeable batteries can be used as a power source for driving the AC-driven electric power tool. The battery adapter contains therein a microcomputer with which charge/discharge control is implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakano, Yukihiro Shima, Kazuhiko Funabashi, Nobuhiro Takano, Yoshikazu Kawano, Masayuki Ogura, Shinji Watanabe, Haruhisa Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 8345203
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixels which are mounted on the substrate, each pixel including a pixel electrode; and switching elements which are mounted on the substrate, each switching element being connected to the pixel electrode. The substrate includes: a flexible insulation substrate; a first insulation layer which is formed over the insulation substrate and includes a plurality of insulation films which are spaced apart from each other, and the switching element is formed on any one of the respective insulation films. The display device can enhance flexibility thereof while forming relatively hard background films thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomio Yaguchi, Yasushi Nakano, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Publication number: 20120256335
    Abstract: Provided is a scintillator panel having excellent sharpness and graininess. In the scintillator panel, the scintillator panel and a surface of a planar light receiving element can be brought into uniform contact with each other within the surface, and deterioration of sharpness between the scintillator panel surface and the surface of the planar light receiving element is reduced. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing such scintillator panel is also provided. The scintillator panel is provided by arranging a phosphor layer composed of phosphor columnar crystal on a polymer film substrate. A leading end portion of the phosphor columnar crystal is flattened by pressurized thermal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Takehiko Shoji, Yasushi Nakano
  • Patent number: 8282198
    Abstract: A residual ink container comprising laminated members for absorbing residual ink not used for recording, wherein the laminated members are laminated with a gap between adjacent ones of the members; and a covering member covering such that non-contact portion is provided between the covering member and a topmost one of the laminated member so as not to press against the topmost one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyasu Asaki, Yui Kitamura, Yasushi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20120107831
    Abstract: Regions where metastatic cancer cells can exist are detected with high accuracy in a sentinel lymph node. Quantum dots are injected into the vicinity of a cancer in a living body, thereby identifying the location of the sentinel lymph node by means of fluorescence. Subsequently, the sentinel lymph node is extracted. With respect to the sentinel lymph node extracted with quantum dots injected, structural analysis is conducted by means of precision fluorescence measurement which uses a confocal fluorescence microscope for monomolecular observation. Specifically, the fluorescence intensity is measured with respect to each of multiple areas in the sentinel lymph nodes, and out of the multiple areas measured, one or more areas are detected as afferent lymph vessel inflow regions in descending order of fluorescence intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicants: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC., TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Makoto Hikage, Kohsuke Gonda, Motohiro Takeda, Takashi Kamei, Noriaki Ohuchi, Hideki Gouda, Yasushi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20120101196
    Abstract: There are provided a novel diarylamine compound represented by the following formula (I), (II) or (III), which has at least one signal attributable to the hydrogen of the N—H moiety at 8.30 ppm to 9.00 ppm when a deuterated dimethyl sulfoxide solution of the diarylamine compound is analyzed by 1H-NMR; and an aging inhibitor, a polymer composition, a crosslinked rubber product and a molded article thereof, and a method of producing a diarylamine compound. In the formulas, A1 to A6 each represent an aromatic group which may have a substituent; A represents an aromatic group or a cyclic aliphatic group, which may both have a substituent; L represents 1 or 2; and n represents 0 or 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Tomonori Ogawa, Satoshi Kiriki, Masanobu Shinohara, Yasushi Nakano
  • Patent number: 8118069
    Abstract: A liquid loading method, a liquid container and a head cartridge are provided, which allow the liquid container to be appropriately loaded with liquid such that a stirring member provided in the liquid container fully fulfills its function. For this end, an infusion needle is inserted from the outside of the ink cartridge into the ink storage chamber comprising a swinging member for stirring ink, so that the ink is loaded into the ink storage chamber through the infusion needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakano, Kazuhiko Okito, Sadayuki Sugama
  • Publication number: 20110255034
    Abstract: The display device according to the present invention is a display device comprising a thin glass substrate (applied thin glass) and a thin film transistor circuit (TFT circuit layer) formed on the thin glass substrate, wherein the thin glass substrate is gained by forming a transparent resin film (resin thin film) on a support member, applying a glass material to the transparent resin film, baking the glass material, and after that removing the support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakano, Hitoshi Azuma, Tomio Yaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110199681
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device having no less flexibility even in the case where a plate, such as a polarizing plate, is provided to the display cell with the distortion of the image being controllable, and the display device has a display cell DC on which an image can be displayed and a plate (PP1, 2) pasted to at least one side of the above described display cell, wherein the adhesiveness of the display cell to the plate in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the display cell that faces the plate is greater than the adhesiveness in the direction parallel to the facing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Tomio YAGUCHI, Yasushi Nakano, Shoichi Uchino, Tetsuya Nagata
  • Publication number: 20110144379
    Abstract: Disclosed are a novel asymmetric azine compound (I) and a method for producing an asymmetric azine compound (I) which is characterized in that an aldehyde compound (III) and hydrazine are reacted in an alcohol solvent at a molar ratio (aldehyde compound (III)):(hydrazine) of from 2:1 to 1:2, thereby obtaining a reaction solution including a hydrazone compound (IV), and then an aldehyde compound (V) is added for a reaction into the thus-obtained reaction solution at a molar ratio (aldehyde compound (V)):(hydrazone compound (IV)) of from 2:1 to 1:2. The method can commercially advantageously produce an asymmetric azine compound having a polar group such as a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group in each molecule. The novel asymmetric azine compound can be obtained by this production method. (In the formulae, R1 and R2 each represents a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group, X1 to X8 each represents a hydrogen atom, —C(?O)—OR3 or the like; and R3 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Yasushi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20110140041
    Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound shown by the following formula, a polymerizable liquid crystal composition that includes the polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a chiral compound polymerizable with the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystalline polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable liquid crystal compound or the polymerizable liquid crystal composition, and an optically anisotropic article that includes the liquid crystalline polymer, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Yasushi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20110102702
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including two substrates disposed opposite to each other with a liquid crystal interposed therebetween. A TFT circuit layer is formed on a surface of one of the paired substrates on the liquid crystal side. The one of the paired substrates is formed at least of glass. A resin layer is interposed between the TFT circuit layer and the glass substrate, in order to prevent the TFT circuit layer from being cracked even if a thickness of the glass substrate is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakano, Hitoshi Azuma, Tomio Yaguchi
  • Patent number: 7932694
    Abstract: A battery charger is configured to use selective one of two or more power supplies including a commercial AC power supply and a DC power supply. An AC cable is fixedly secured to the body of the battery charger and a DC cable is detachably connected to the body of the battery charger. A single transformer is employed that has a first primary winding to which the AC power supply is connected a first switching element, a second primary winding to which the DC power supply is connected via a second switching element, and a secondary winding to which a battery pack to be charged is coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Yasushi Nakano, Haruhisa Fujisawa, Nobuhiro Takano
  • Publication number: 20110051070
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate and a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer which is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate includes a resin substrate having conductivity and a polarizer, the polarizer is arranged on a surface of the resin substrate on a side opposite to a surface of the resin substrate which faces the second substrate in an opposed manner, a main surface of the resin substrate includes an exposure portion which exposes a portion of the main surface of the resin substrate from a main surface of the polarizer, a plurality of lines are formed on the second substrate, and the first substrate is electrically connected with at least one of the plurality of lines via the exposure portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Susumu SASAKI, Katsuyuu Takahashi, Tetsuya Nagata, Hitoshi Azuma, Tomio Yaguchi, Yasushi Nakano